Rock & Roll Submarine


Rock & Roll Submarine is an album by alternative rock band Urge Overkill, released in 2011. It was their first album in sixteen years.

Critical reception

Spin wrote: "Calcifying their trademark lounge leer into a dead-eyed glare, singer-guitarists Nash Kato and Ed 'King' Roeser ply curdled Bad Company riffs and a seedy, confessional air, serving up shit cocktails to anyone foolish enough to swallow ’90s nostalgia." The A.V. Club wrote that the band "keeps the Nuge-style riffage on Rock & Roll Submarine rooted in the realities of basement-show grime, tamping down the old stadium-ruling ambitions with wanton sloppiness and purposefully duller hooks." The Washington Post wrote that if the album "displays less attitude than Urge’s ’90s work, that’s probably because Roeser has gradually supplanted the flashier Kato as the principal songwriter." The New Yorker thought that the Urge Overkill of Rock & Roll Submarine "offers a more raw sound, but with tightly arranged and raspingly sung anthems."

Track listing

  1. "Mason/Dixon"—2:58
  2. "Rock & Roll Submarine"—4:01
  3. "Effigy"—3:44
  4. "Poison Flower"—2:32
  5. "Little Vice"—3:14
  6. "Thought Balloon"—4:13
  7. "Quiet Person"—3:23
  8. "She's My Ride"—3:33
  9. "End of Story"—3:24
  10. "The Valiant"—3:45
  11. "Niteliner"—2:21
  12. "Touched to a Cut"—2:09